Drug delivery system for administration of poorly water soluble pharmaceutically active substances
AssigneeArdenia Investments, Ltd.
InventorsJulian Aleksov, Igor Lokot
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Abstract
This invention relates to a drug delivery system for administration of poorly water soluble pharmaceutically active substance, a pharmaceutical composition comprising such a drug delivery system, and a method for the preparation of such a drug delivery system. The invention also relates to a method for controlling the particle size and/or particle shape and/or particle size distribution in such a drug delivery system, and to a method for increasing the drug loading capacity of the particles. Furthermore the invention also relates to the use of such a drug delivery system for the preparation of a medicament for the treatment of cancer.
Claims7
A drug delivery system for administration of at least one pharmaceutically active substance having a solubility per se in water of less than about 100 μg/ml, said substance being in particulate form with an effective average particle size of less than about 100 nm, wherein
- the substance particles are essentially amorphous;
- the substance particles are entrapped in nanoparticles formed of a sodium salt of the methyl ester of N-all-trans-retinoyl cysteic acid, sodium salt of methyl ester of N-13-cis-retinoyl cysteic acid, or a combination thereof;
- the weight-to-weight ratio of said sodium salt of methyl ester of N-all-trans-retinoyl cysteic acid, sodium salt of methyl ester of N-13-cis-retinoyl cysteic acid, or a combination thereof, to said substance is in the range from about 0.5:1 to about 20:1;
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- said substance is an immunosuppressant chosen from among ciclosporin, sirolimus, tacrolimus and derivatives thereof.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.